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Elizabeth Eckford: Profile in Courage

   October 4, 2022

On Thursday night, The Equity Project Alliance, in partnership with the Delta Iota Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., and the Diocese of the Central Gulf Coast, welcomes Elizabeth Eckford, a member of the Little Rock Nine, to Pensacola. Ms. Eckford will recount her experience as she and eight other students integrated Little Rock Central High School in 1957.

One of the most iconic photos of the civil rights movement is one of Eckford being followed by an angry mob of white students and adults on the first day of school. She shares how the day unfolded.

“An Evening with Elizabeth Eckford: Little Rock Nine Icon” is 5:30 p.m. Thursday at Pensacola State College in the Ashmore Auditorium at 1000 College Blvd., Building 8.  Register here.

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